Games folder

This concerns the Game folder that can be selected by Clicking
Start...Games. I had a shortcut to an internet game on my desktop. I
thought it would be handy to have it in this Games folder. So I clicked and
dragged it into the Games folder. It shows up, shaded out and inoperative.
I can't find a way to delete it from that folder. If I right click it no
options appear like with the other games there.
The original shortcut still shows on my desktop and works OK. Any ideas?

I should have added that I have Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP-1 with Win Live
Essentials and MS Security Essentials.

"Panic" wrote in message news:j1k8de$52m$...

This concerns the Game folder that can be selected by Clicking
Start...Games. I had a shortcut to an internet game on my desktop. I
thought it would be handy to have it in this Games folder. So I clicked and
dragged it into the Games folder. It shows up, shaded out and inoperative.
I can't find a way to delete it from that folder. If I right click it no
options appear like with the other games there.
The original shortcut still shows on my desktop and works OK. Any ideas?

On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:10:14 -0700, Panic wrote:

> I should have added that I have Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP-1 with Win Live
> Essentials and MS Security Essentials.
>
> "Panic" wrote in message news:j1k8de$52m$...
>
> This concerns the Game folder that can be selected by Clicking
> Start...Games. I had a shortcut to an internet game on my desktop. I
> thought it would be handy to have it in this Games folder. So I clicked and
> dragged it into the Games folder. It shows up, shaded out and inoperative.
> I can't find a way to delete it from that folder. If I right click it no
> options appear like with the other games there.
> The original shortcut still shows on my desktop and works OK. Any ideas?

Wrong method, I'd say.

Click Start and type "shell:games" (without the quotes) in the "Search
programs and files" box. Press Enter (or click on the highlighted entry
above) and you should be able to drag shortcuts into and delete
shortcuts from the resulting Explorer window.

It worked for me.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
news:...

On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:10:14 -0700, Panic wrote:

> I should have added that I have Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP-1 with Win
> Live
> Essentials and MS Security Essentials.
>
> "Panic" wrote in message news:j1k8de$52m$...
>
> This concerns the Game folder that can be selected by Clicking
> Start...Games. I had a shortcut to an internet game on my desktop. I
> thought it would be handy to have it in this Games folder. So I clicked
> and
> dragged it into the Games folder. It shows up, shaded out and
> inoperative.
> I can't find a way to delete it from that folder. If I right click it no
> options appear like with the other games there.
> The original shortcut still shows on my desktop and works OK. Any ideas?

Wrong method, I'd say.

Click Start and type "shell:games" (without the quotes) in the "Search
programs and files" box. Press Enter (or click on the highlighted entry
above) and you should be able to drag shortcuts into and delete
shortcuts from the resulting Explorer window.
It worked for me.
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

When I do that the Games folder comes up and looks and reacts the same as if
I just clicked Start..Games. The shortcut "attempt" is still faded out and
has no reaction to clicking and will not even show any properties. The name
of that faded entry is Ping Pong. I opened the registry, searched for Ping
Pong found it and deleted it. It is still there.

On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 15:53:33 -0700, Panic wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
> news:...
>
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:10:14 -0700, Panic wrote:
>
>> I should have added that I have Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP-1 with Win
>> Live
>> Essentials and MS Security Essentials.
>>
>> "Panic" wrote in message news:j1k8de$52m$...
>>
>> This concerns the Game folder that can be selected by Clicking
>> Start...Games. I had a shortcut to an internet game on my desktop. I
>> thought it would be handy to have it in this Games folder. So I clicked
>> and
>> dragged it into the Games folder. It shows up, shaded out and
>> inoperative.
>> I can't find a way to delete it from that folder. If I right click it no
>> options appear like with the other games there.
>> The original shortcut still shows on my desktop and works OK. Any ideas?
>
> Wrong method, I'd say.
>
> Click Start and type "shell:games" (without the quotes) in the "Search
> programs and files" box. Press Enter (or click on the highlighted entry
> above) and you should be able to drag shortcuts into and delete
> shortcuts from the resulting Explorer window.
> It worked for me.
> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>
> When I do that the Games folder comes up and looks and reacts the same as if
> I just clicked Start..Games. The shortcut "attempt" is still faded out and
> has no reaction to clicking and will not even show any properties. The name
> of that faded entry is Ping Pong. I opened the registry, searched for Ping
> Pong found it and deleted it. It is still there.

(MUST you use Windows Live mail? What a failure of a newsreader that one
is! Oh, well, I *did* track down your content...)

In the first place, your description of how to get to Games on the start
menu is *nothing* like the way it works here. I have to click on the
Start Orb and then choose All Programs. *Then* I can navigate within the
Start Menu to the Games folder icon. When I click on that folder's icon,
it expands *in place* on the Start Menu to give a list of games
(although my test shortcut wasn't a game, but that doesn't matter). It
looks nothing like the folder I get from shell:games, which is a
separate Windows Explorer window on the desktop.

So I guess you somehow added a shortcut to the Games folder to the start
menu.

BTW, deleting something from the registry doesn't sound to me like a way
of deleting it from Windows Explorer and from the file system...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Panic" <> wrote in message
news:j1k8de$52m$...
> This concerns the Game folder that can be selected by Clicking
> Start...Games. I had a shortcut to an internet game on my desktop. I
> thought it would be handy to have it in this Games folder. So I clicked
> and dragged it into the Games folder. It shows up, shaded out and
> inoperative. I can't find a way to delete it from that folder. If I right
> click it no options appear like with the other games there.
> The original shortcut still shows on my desktop and works OK. Any ideas?
>

Try this...

http://majorgeeks.com/Unlocker_d4660.html

Andy

On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 15:53:33 -0700, Panic wrote:
>
> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
> news:...
>
> Wrong method, I'd say.
>
> Click Start and type "shell:games" (without the quotes) in the "Search
> programs and files" box. Press Enter (or click on the highlighted entry
> above) and you should be able to drag shortcuts into and delete
> shortcuts from the resulting Explorer window.
> It worked for me.
> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

You might not be aware of a big problem with your quoting style.
The way your newsreader is doing it, when someone else follows
up, it looks like you *said* what you actually only quoted.

The problem is that Windows Live Mail 2011 (version 15) has a
quoting style that is completely broken. Unfortunately that poses
a painful choice to you: either fix every quote manually, or get
a real newsreader such as Gravity, Xananews, and Forte Agent (to
mention some that come to mind at the moment). OR, if you really
want WLM, some say that WLM 14 will serve; see "SC Tom" below.

update 2011-04-02: I've seen a newsgroup posting claiming you
can un-break WLM 15 by installing and using an Autohotkey script:
http://www.dusko-lolic.from.hr/wlmquote/

Thanks for your consideration!

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:48:13 -0500, SC Tom wrote:
> Along with what the others have suggested, you can uninstall
> WLM 2011 and install WLM 2009 instead, which handles quoting
> a lot better:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?
> FamilyID=56883de5-2024-4631-806e-757693072a1c

[or use http://tinyurl.com/25zfouw which redirects to the above]
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:31:03 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> Click Start and type "shell:games" (without the quotes) in the "Search
> programs and files" box. Press Enter (or click on the highlighted entry
> above) and you should be able to drag shortcuts into and delete
> shortcuts from the resulting Explorer window.

There's still something weird going on. For instance, I can't rename
any of the shortcuts. "Rename" isn't in the right-click menu, and
the F2 key doesn't do anything.


--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On 07/08/2011 20:09, Stan Brown wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:31:03 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>> Click Start and type "shell:games" (without the quotes) in the "Search
>> programs and files" box. Press Enter (or click on the highlighted entry
>> above) and you should be able to drag shortcuts into and delete
>> shortcuts from the resulting Explorer window.
>
> There's still something weird going on. For instance, I can't rename
> any of the shortcuts. "Rename" isn't in the right-click menu, and
> the F2 key doesn't do anything.
>
>

That Games folder isn't like other user folders. It's maintained by
Windows itself.
Install a new game, and after a while Win7 will have found it and put a
link in the Games folder (except for some older games).
That's the nature of the problem here. That's the problem with trying to
rename links or putting shortcuts in it; they are Win7's job. You can,
however, at least I think you can, drag an executive file into it.

Ed

Ed Cryer wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 20:09, Stan Brown wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 14:31:03 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>>> Click Start and type "shell:games" (without the quotes) in the "Search
>>> programs and files" box. Press Enter (or click on the highlighted entry
>>> above) and you should be able to drag shortcuts into and delete
>>> shortcuts from the resulting Explorer window.
>>
>> There's still something weird going on. For instance, I can't rename
>> any of the shortcuts. "Rename" isn't in the right-click menu, and
>> the F2 key doesn't do anything.
>>
>>
>
> That Games folder isn't like other user folders. It's maintained by
> Windows itself.
> Install a new game, and after a while Win7 will have found it and put a
> link in the Games folder (except for some older games).
> That's the nature of the problem here. That's the problem with trying to
> rename links or putting shortcuts in it; they are Win7's job. You can,
> however, at least I think you can, drag an executive file into it.
>
> Ed
>

I think it's one of those libraries.

My laptop has 20 entries like this in the file system. (This is the
copy of the laptop I keep on my WinXP machine.)

ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/GameExplorer/{0b0f49ed-14ee-4b18-bd20-79da71943c57}/SupportTasks/0/More Games.lnk

And this directory has more items in it, so some could
belong to Microsoft, the others the cruft from Acer. I
might have about 35 of these.

ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Games/- Acer Game Console -.lnk
ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Games/Solitaire.lnk

I would think, a game which is "automatically recognized", it's going
to create one of those GameExplorer links.

Paul